File manager sorting by name puts files in the wrong order?
I have created a directory containing the following files:
a
m1111B
m999A
z
When I open that direcory in _any_ file manager and ask it to sort them by name they are listed in the following order:
a
m999A
m1111B
z
Can anyone else reproduce this? I get the exact same behaviour in Nautilus, Dolphin, Konqueror, Thunar. I'm using KDE4 on a mythbuntu install (I think based on ubuntu 12). The supplied file names are just examples, the same thing happens with many files with combinations of numbers and letters. The pattern seems to be something to do with ignoring the numbers and sorting based on the letters but I can't quite pin down what the rule is. Needless to say that ls and sort both put m1111B before m999A. Even while writing this post I selected the 4 files and copy/pasted them into this text window to get the same ordering, but they pasted in the right order?!
I'm sorry for posting this to such a general forum but, assuming this is a bug, I have no idea bit of my setup is responsible so I don't know which specific support forum to post to - And because the search terms are so generic I'm finding it hard to search for duplicate reports.
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